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Post by rmcdra on May 21, 2013 10:09:53 GMT -5
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Post by waywardwanderer on May 21, 2013 13:52:11 GMT -5
Very interesting. It seems as though some of these works may finally be starting to filter into mainstream consciousness. I fear it will be a long time before we see widespread open mindedness towards them though. I think every year it becomes more and more clear that we have been missing a big piece of early Christianity for a very long time.
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Post by friendofsophia on Dec 19, 2014 2:43:50 GMT -5
I don't have a canon per se. I do have a number of "reference books" that I have found to be good road maps, but a map is only a miniscule image of the road to be traveled I think. Some depict the road with more clarity than others and sometimes the depiction is obscured under the Dragon painted up in the corner.  I can relate to that. There are some texts for me like the Gospel of John, Trimorphic Protennoia, Hypostasis of the Archons, and the Gospel of Thomas that have always sparked that sense within me that there is something so much more behind the words and stories, something just on the horizon of my capacity for understanding yet at the same time something so familiar, as though I was being reminded of something I knew all along. That being said, sometimes a movie, song, picture, or even a conversation can do the same thing....sometimes even better. Sophia is not isolated to old books.....but she can be found there...with eyes to see. |
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Post by phantasman on Dec 22, 2014 12:36:35 GMT -5
Most of the 10 I study with. There are a few in the list I am not familiar with (odes and prayer). I also reference Secret James and the Gospel of Philip, though Philip is not in the early date range, it is filled with knowledge and inspiration that moves my spirit.
I was surprised to see an acceptance of Secret John and the Gospel of Truth by the presbyters listed.
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